i had the same problem thats becaus eof the space in "local settings" i just changed the temp variable to c:\temp and everything was fine. ofcourse i changed it back to original setting %user... after ncabbing <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There's also a space in "Documents and Settings", and it was truncated correctly, so why wouldn't "local settings" be? That seems kinda strange. Sorry, I can't read your language. Is that your complete variable name or some error message? What does it say when you type echo %TMP% Did you use a tweak to disable shortfile name creation? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This is the translation: C:\DOCUME~1\Administror\Local is not recognized as a intern or extern command, program or batchfile